Imagine Happiness Can Be Learned ! ! !
Believing that happiness can be learned and that building character based on positive values leads to a happy, content, and self-confident human being, Suzy Liebermann has created HUGO THE HAPPY STARFISH children's books as series on character education for children. This series includes an introduction to the Spanish language, lessons of character, ecological alertness and life skills—all amid a backdrop of a colorful island and underwater world.

Monday, July 25, 2011

MUNDI KIDS BOOK REVIEW - It's a GOOD READ

Book Review: HUGO THE HAPPY STARFISH

Released on November 1st, 2010

Source- book from author for review

Ages 3 & up

3.5 stars- It's A Good Read

Happiness Begins Within

... a story about self-esteemHugo the Happy Starfish Learns to Love HimselfHugo is a little starfish living in the big green ocean. Every day Hugo smiles and makes other creatures happy—and doing that makes Hugo happy. But one day Hugo stops smiling. He begins to feel small and ugly, convinced that nobody likes him. Hugo decides that he should try to be more like the Magic Manta so that everyone will like him. Join Hugo on his journey as he discovers that being himself is the best way to be—and the only way to be happy.

Hugo's story is a good way to teach kids about having a good self-esteem and to be happy with the way they are. Hugo is a happy star fish who likes making others feel happy, but when he's granted a few wishes he decides he wants to change a few thing he doesn't like about himself. Hugo learns a great lesson and once those changes are made he wishes he could be himself again.

With it's cute, brightly colored pages, Hugo will teach kids to be happy just being themselves. The only compliant I have is I felt the Spanish translation were really random through out the story. I would have loved to see the translations on every page and not just in the middle of some of the sentences or on certain pages. This is a great story that will each kids to have a good self-esteem and like Hugo learned, they too will realize they're special just the way they are.

About Me

Believing that happiness can be learned and that building character based on positive values leads to happy, content, and self-confident human beings, Suzy Liebermann has created this book as the first in a series on character education for children. This series includes an introduction to the Spanish language, lessons of character, ecological alertness and life skills—all amid a backdrop of a colorful island and underwater world.